Mike Usiskin has been working as a professional photographer for over 10 years photographing a huge variety of issues and events for himself and his clients. His work has taken him from New Zealand to Russia through maximum security prisons and drug rehabilitation centres to corporate events, pagan festivals, all the while concentrating on the humanity behind the headlines and the characters beyond.
Subjects and clients appreciate Mike's quiet unobtrusive way of gathering images often commenting on his ability to convey the emotions often so carefully hidden by the subject. Of his work within the prison service, The Guardian newspaper had this to say
"Usiskin has achieved what few photographers have, his work having caught the genuine whiff of the atmosphere, the stale reek of humanity."